Genres
Duration
17 min
Director
Director not available
Rating
6.5
Release Date
July 30, 1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Original title: Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
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This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards cast
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Carey Wilson
Character:
Commentator - as Oscar statuette (voice)
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Janet Gaynor
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Emil Jannings
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Mary Pickford
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Warner Baxter
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Norma Shearer
Character:
Self
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George Arliss
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Marie Dressler
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Lionel Barrymore
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Helen Hayes
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Fredric March
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Katharine Hepburn
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Charles Laughton
Character:
Self
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Claudette Colbert
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Clark Gable
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Shirley Temple
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Irvin S. Cobb
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Bette Davis
Character:
Self
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Irving Thalberg
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Luise Rainer
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Paul Muni
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Spencer Tracy
Character:
Self
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W.C. Fields
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Mack Sennett
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Edgar Bergen
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Character:
Self
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Douglas Fairbanks
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Deanna Durbin
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Mickey Rooney
Character:
Self
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Walt Disney
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Hal B. Wallis
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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George Bernard Shaw
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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James Stewart
Character:
Self
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Elsa Lanchester
Character:
Self
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Jean Hersholt
Character:
Self
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Hedy Lamarr
Character:
Self
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Gene Markey
Character:
Self
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Melvyn Douglas
Character:
Self
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Helen Gahagan
Character:
Self
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Irving Pichel
Character:
Self
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Vivien Leigh
Character:
Self
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David O. Selznick
Character:
Self
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May Robson
Character:
Self
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Olivia de Havilland
Character:
Self
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John Hay Whitney
Character:
Self
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Louella Parsons
Character:
Self
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Harry Martin
Character:
Self (as Dr. Henry Martin)
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Hedda Hopper
Character:
Self
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John Carroll
Character:
Self
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Jack L. Warner
Character:
Self
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Harry M. Warner
Character:
Self
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Ann Rutherford
Character:
Self
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Virginia Bruce
Character:
Self
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J. Walter Ruben
Character:
Self
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Character:
Self
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Elsa Maxwell
Character:
Self
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Laurence Olivier
Character:
Self
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E.J. Mannix
Character:
Self
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Judy Garland
Character:
Self
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George Raft
Character:
Self
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Walter Wanger
Character:
Self
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Frank Capra
Character:
Self
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Robert Donat
Character:
Self (archive footage)
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Hattie McDaniel
Character:
Self
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Thomas Mitchell
Character:
Self
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Fay Bainter
Character:
Self
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Victor Fleming
Character:
Self
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Mervyn LeRoy
Character:
Self
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Sinclair Lewis
Character:
Self
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Lewis R. Foster
Character:
Self
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Gordon Hollingshead
Character:
Self
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Hamilton Luske
Character:
Self
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Bob Hope
Character:
Self - Master of Ceremonies
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E.Y. Harburg
Character:
Self
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Harold Arlen
Character:
Self
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William Cameron Menzies
Character:
Self
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Herbert T. Kalmus
Character:
Self
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Hal C. Kern
Character:
Self
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James E. Newcom
Character:
Self
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Ernest Haller
Character:
Self
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Ray Rennahan
Character:
Self
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Bernard B. Brown
Character:
Self
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Fred Sersen
Character:
Self
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Lyle R. Wheeler
Character:
Self
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Edmund H. Hansen
Character:
Self
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Herbert Stothart
Character:
Self
